Summer Tour - Film Screening + Q&A with Director Mischa Richter

Barrington Hall is pleased to announce a very special screening of the film SUMMER TOUR + a Q&A with director Mischa Richter

Summer Tour is a poetic documentary that follows Jerry and Annie, a magnetic young couple devoted to the music and community of Dead & Company as they journey across America for the band’s final tour. Blending intimate portraiture with lyrical road imagery, the film captures the essence of the Deadhead experience: an unconventional family bound together by music, freedom, and the open road. At once a love story and a celebration of a uniquely American tradition of wandering, Summer Tour reflects on what it means to seek belonging, adventure, and transcendence in a fleeting moment of cultural history.

Director’s Statement:

When I was a teenager my high school sweetheart, Chloë Sevigny, introduced me to the Grateful Dead. We’d sit with a boombox listening to bootleg tapes, wondering what it would be like to see the band in person. In September of 1990, the Dead played a run of shows at Madison Square Garden. We hopped the train from Connecticut to Grand Central and made our way to the Garden. We didn’t have tickets or even much money but Chloë cleverly found an unlocked door down a hallway and suddenly we were in. The music blew me away, but what truly struck me was the community surrounding the band. It wasn’t just a concert. It was a traveling village that followed the Dead wherever they went. I was instantly hooked. For the next two years, I went to as many shows as I could, falling in love not just with the music, but with the road and the fun surrounding the community of Dead Heads. Eventually, I moved to Europe to study art, and twenty years later returned to America. By then Jerry Garcia had been gone for over a decade yet the spirit of the Dead was alive and well. Bands were still playing from their vast catalogue and the community around the music was still thriving. That’s when I knew I had to make a film. Summer Tour is my love letter to this enduring 60 year old tradition.A look inside the Grateful Dead experience and a celebration of the uniquely American adventure of hitting the road, chasing music and dancing. And while doing so finding community. Enjoy the ride.

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